Emily Brown And The Thing (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Cowell, Cressida

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9780606238298: Emily Brown And The Thing (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

ISBN 10: 0606238298 ISBN 13: 9780606238298

Publisher: Turtleback, 2012

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Once upon a time there was a little girl called Emily Brown and an old grey rabbit called Stanley.

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About the Author

Cressida Cowell (Author)
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon book series, and the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton.

How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 38 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The first book in Cressida's new series, The Wizards of Once (also signed by DreamWorks), is a number one bestseller.

Cressida is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize , the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now'magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.

She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.

Neal Layton (Illustrator)
Many of Neal's ideas come from his childhood, and now he's grown up, from being a parent. He has illustrated more than 60 books to date, working with authors such as Michael Rosen and Cressida Cowell, and won several prizes including a Gold Award for 'That Rabbit belongs to Emily Brown'. He also writes his own books including the pop-up book'The Story of Everything' and the best selling 'Mammoth Academy Series'. His books are currently in print in more that 16 languages worldwide. He now lives in Southsea, Portsmouth with his wife and two daughters. He likes living by the seaside.

Review

A fantastic tale.―North West Evening Mail

A simple story, imaginatively reflected in wildly wonderful artwork, that will delight both old and young readers

A simple story, imaginatively reflected in wildly wonderful artwork, that will delight both old and young readers―Carousel

A fantastic tale.

A warm-hearted and witty take on being scared of the dark―Guernsey Press & Star

This is a wonderful story about a small girl dealing with a very high maintenance monster called the Thing. It's funny, it's got twists and turns and shows us, among other things, that we can spend far too much time nurturing our fears rather than trying to conquer them

This is a wonderful story about a small girl dealing with a very high maintenance monster called the Thing. It's funny, it's got twists and turns and shows us, among other things, that we can spend far too much time nurturing our fears rather than trying to conquer them―The Guardian

The illustrations are often dark and complex but they are entirely appropriate to the story

The illustrations are often dark and complex but they are entirely appropriate to the story―School Librarian

Rascally bedtime fare